Strive For '65: Goal not looking so good

Less than a month away til my big birthday (3 weeks from TODAY EEK!), the deadline for my Strive For '65 set build goal. I'm not going to make it. I'm only a little more than 1/3 of the way complete. Not too bad for a little over a year's worth of pursuit effort (starting with only 90some cards of an almost 600 card set), well really only a few months I did slack some during the "year" especially during the winter months. Hopefully between now and the End of the Year I can complete it. It wouldn't be the original goal which sucks, but it is better than waiting til the next big anniversary (75 years) to finally complete the dang set. I might not be around for that anniversary, who knows? So I prefer to get this set complete NOW.

It seems most of the cards I've had to get by buying them from somewhere. Not many traders or bloggers have spares of this set to go around. I got some more cards from this set from a purchase from a forum member over at Sports Card Forum (SCF). I'm sort of scratching my head over a couple of decisions I made about those. I opted to get a duplicate of one of the Senators, which I already have the complete team set for this set, and a graded copy YES GRADED copy of the Boog Powell card. I will have to free it of it's plastic prison to put it into the set binder, or snag a cheaper raw copy on Ebay for the binder.

Current Progress is 207/598 (209/600) 34.9%

For this post I was going to scan the more recently acquired cards from this set like the Powell, but I haven't scanned them yet. They are lounging around in the "to blog about sometime" queue which has been backed up for a couple of years now. I'll mention them when I complete the pages they are from if I haven't made an extra post for them before that.

Mailday Wednesday 11 April 2012

Playing catch-up with my maildays. No scans right now. Later when I mention this Team Set.
Got two Ebay packages. Still waiting on a sportlots package that was paid for back on 22 March (all but this one package has arrived, I think the guy might be from Canada and he may have taken time to fill/ship the order, hence the delay) Anyway chronologically I got:

1975 Topps 208 MVPs 1970 Boog Powell Orioles and Johnny Bench Reds

1989 O-Pee-Chee Baltimore Orioles
14 Tom Niedenfuer
22 Billy Ripken
98 Larry Sheets
148 Eddie Murray
161 Brady Anderson
192 Ken Gerhart
124 Jim Traber
213 Rene Gonzales
231 Dave Schmidt
250 Cal Ripken
309 Terry Kennedy
417 Pete Stanicek
352 Rick Schu

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